When rebels become stakeholders : democracy, agency and social change in India /

When Rebels Become Stakeholders: Democracy, Agency and Social Change in India explores the agency of ordinary men and women in the making of democratic social change in India. The study is specific to India, but the issues that it examines are of wider significance. The authors join the debate on de...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mitra, Subrata Kumar, 1949-
Other Authors: Singh, V. B., 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Delhi : Los Angeles : Sage Publications India ; SAGE, 2009.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1971-2004.
Social change > India.
Democracy > India.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Democracy
Social change
Demokratie
Politische Beteiligung
Sozialer Wandel
India
Indien
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: democracy and the puzzle of orderly social change
  • The context of social change: interfacing society and state in India
  • Continuity and change in Indian politics: an inter-generational analysis
  • The elements of political agency and the limits of consensus
  • Political competition, social cleavages and institutionalisation of the party system
  • Re-inventing the nation: the dialectics of nation and region in India
  • Poverty, welfare and social opportunity in India
  • Building social capital from above and below: locality, region and trust in India
  • India at sixty: social change and the resilience of democracy
  • Beyond India: democracy and social change in comparative perspective.

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